i recently saw a documentary called "war made easy". In this documentary they were conveying facts that where already well known (to me as a european). Yet they where largely unknown to most americans. Also checked some of the reactions of americans on IMDB (not the brightest club of people though).

The reason was that the American media was anything but unbiased and as soon as the war started, stopped critically reporting the news. The reason was that the networks didn't want critisism of Amerika be "the face" of the network.

now i'm quite skeptical, but most "Americans" i have talked to do seem to have a very skewed view of the world (except the educated ones that have worked abroad). It really is weird to me that Americans largely don't have a clue about their position in the world with regards to other countries.

my question though is, how much of this is true? I don't have a extensive network of americans i talk to, but the ones i do talk to either confirm my suspicions, or agree with my views that as a whole americans don't know much about anything outside the us.

this quote will sum everything up nicely
"in most cases, foreigners will know more about America, then an American will ever know about any foreign country" -- Hugh Laurie